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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

For the next few days I became familiar with runaway and homeless youth issues. We worked up a contract and the church agreed to host us for two years, with the option of a possible future renewal. state and the city to find out what we needed to do to become licensed. I looked up shelters all over the U.S. and Canada.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An excellent first small step is to just identify the blogs that are hosting those conversations on the topics that interest you or inform your work. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was lucky enough this morning to hear Nancy Lublin’s opening keynote at the Data On Purpose conference hosted by the Stanford Social Innovation Review. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. Kids learned about homelessness. It’s Monday.